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UFOP Researchers participate in Scientific Panel for the Amazon

The Scientific Panel for the Amazon (SPA), coordinated by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), aims to discuss sustainable solutions for the Amazon through a scientific evaluation of the state of the various ecosystems in the region, the causes and tendencies of climate change and the land use. The last...

UFOP celebrates its 51st anniversary!

Today, August 21st, Federal University of Ouro Preto celebrates its 51st anniversary. Founded from the junction of the century-old and traditional School of Pharmacy and School of Mines, the institution currently offers programs in the most diverse areas of knowledge, with campuses in Ouro Preto, Mariana and João Monlevade...

UFOP researchers' work is published in an international journal

The article published by the journal Free Radical Biology & Medicine was developed mainly by graduate students and professors from UFOP. In this work, the researchers evaluate the properties of the extract of the flowers of Melaleuca Leucadendron, a tree commonly found at Morro do Cruzeiro campus (Ouro Preto). Among...

Researchers from the School of Pharmacy publish an article in an international scientific journal

The article was published in the British Journal of Pharmacology, scientific journal of the British Pharmacological Society, responsible for the most relevant publications of the International Union of Basic & Clinical Pharmacology (IUPHAR). The publication is the result of Ana Carolina Moreira Souza's thesis. She...

Researchers identify Amazon region vulnerability and defend airport health control

The interdisciplinary group of 10 scientists from Brazil and Mexico, among them four from the Federal University of Ouro Preto (UFOP) - Serbian Pontes Ribeiro, Alcides Castro e Silva, Alexandre Barbosa Reis, and Wendel Coura-Vital - has just concluded a mathematical model that describes the dynamics of dissemination of...

Capes approves Master’s Degree in Tourism and Heritage at UFOP

The interdisciplinary academic master's degree project in Tourism and Heritage is linked to the Tourism program of the Federal University of Ouro Preto (UFOP). This is the first graduate program in this field of study in the state of Minas Gerais. In the country, there are only six academic master's degrees and four...

In-person assistance suspended

CAINT's in-person activities are suspended indefinitely. The measure was taken yesterday, 17-03, at an extraordinary meeting of UFOP's University Council, which approved the indefinite suspension of academic activities at Federal University of Ouro Preto (UFOP), as a measure to prevent and contain the spread of the new...

Suspension of on-campus activities at UFOP

The academic activities of the Federal University of Ouro Preto (UFOP) were suspended for an indefinite period of time - with a fortnightly reassessment - in an extraordinary meeting of the University Council (Cuni) of UFOP this past Tuesday, on the 17th. The meeting evaluated the Institution's functioning and the...

UFOP former student selected for international Physics course

Kátia Solange Fonseca do Rosário Vilela was selected to participate in the CERN Physics Course, a project of great scientific importance organized by one of the largest Physics research laboratories in the world, located in Portugal. Approved in the 2019 selection process, Kátia Vilela will participate in particle physics...

CAINT promotes internationalization actions in partnership with Ouro Preto Tourism Festival

Ouro Preto Tourism Festival took place between the 7th and 10th of August, The international scope event aimed to foster tourism business and economic development throughout the state of Minas Gerais - especially in the Gold Circuit, Inconfidentes and Middle Piracicaba Regions -, and also to promote discussions,...